Re: [SQL] Re: [HACKERS] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL

1) free is freedom, not free bear ;-) also, there are some sites
has oql draft -- like sql draft. sorry, can not remember.
2) good books, like " C++ object databases" (David Jordan) has
a lot material.
3) a lot of OODBM evaluation copy there. Not totally complied, but
together with 1 and 2, still can see what is going on.

so, no excuse for not knowing oodbm/oql :-) -- I'm waiting for
trying them on pg .

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> Chris wrote:
> >
> > > One very good point is the query language of the
> > > rdbms systems. On the odbms side no standard is
> > > really available, which can be seen as the sql of
> > > the odbms.
> >
> > There is a standard called OQL which is very similar to SQL. It's just
> > rather poorly supported.
> >
>
> I think the operative word here is "available". I know that SQL specs
> are'nt freely available either, but due to SQL being already widely
> supported one can get the general idea from many freely available sources,
> like the bunch of freely downloadable DB's currently available for linux.
> Most of them have some docs included.
>
> It is still quite a job to reconstruct SQL92 from them ;)
>
> I know now description (except a BNF syntax available from some ODBMS website)
> that I could use to get some idea about OQL.
>
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> Hannu
>
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